Carpet Tiles for Restaurants?

Why Choose Carpet Tiles for Restaurants?

If you run a restaurant, the last thing you want to spend a lot of time thinking about is probably your floor. However, the look and feel of a restaurant floor may set the theme for the entire dining room.

Commercial carpet tiles for restaurants

If you want your eatery to appeal to family, casual and fine diners, a carpeted floor is nice. However, you have to be sensible about carpet. After all, you are running a restaurant and people spill food and drinks.

Why Do Carpet Tiles Make Sense in Restaurants?

There are two very good reasons to use carpet tiles in a restaurant.

Versatile

They are affordable

Simple to replace one square or the entire restaurant

Versatile tile

These days heavy-duty carpet tiles come in a variety of colours and textures. This means you can find tiles to match just about any style, décor or colouring your designer might have in mind. What’s even better is that when they are correctly laid on your floor, your customers won’t know that you did not just install a fine roll of carpet.

Restaurant Carpet Tiles Are Affordable

We all know how expensive carpeting is for a home. Commercial grade carpet is even more expensive. However, commercial grade carpet tiles, while more costly than ordinary domestic tiles are nevertheless, considerably more affordable than rolls of industrial strength carpet.

Given the huge start-up and running costs for a restaurant, it makes sense to control investment on ongoing costs where possible. Where better to start than with one of the most important and heavily used aspects of your diner – the floor covering?

Carpet Tiles Are Simple To Install And Replace

Commercial carpet tiles also known as squares are generally available in a 50cm x 50cm square. However. Sometimes you can find larger ones if you need them. They are meant to be laid down like any floor tiles. Usually, the back of the tile has a sticky strip covered by paper. Once the paper is removed, the tile sticks in place just as if it were nailed to a floor board.

If you have ever tried to lift old wall-to-wall broad-loom carpet you will know that it is quite difficult to lift. However, even though these tiles are meant to stay firmly in place, they are very easy to pry up when necessary. So they are very easy to replace when the need arises. To make sure you can replace any worn or damaged tiles, simply buy an extra box or two in the beginning so you can get them from the same production batch and then you will have easy replacements on hand when you need them in case a tile gets ruined by spilled food or drinks.

Can you imagine the cost of repair or replacement with a full-width carpet?

Another benefit of using tiles is that if you decide on a colour change or redecorate in a few years, then it is very inexpensive and simple to replace your entire floor. You do not have to make a lifelong commitment in order to keep your flooring nice.

With other choices, like ceramic tiles, regular carpet or wood, you could hardly justify the expense of replacing them very often. Besides the extra expense of these traditional types of flooring, you may even have to close off areas of your restaurant while work is being done.

Do You Need A Professional To Install The Tiles?

This is one of the best things about working with these tiles. You could choose to hire somebody to do the work, but installing these tiles is a fairly simply DIY project that should only take a few hours.

You can even lay them over an existing hard surface, though you might want to hire somebody to remove your old carpet and floor boards. Removing an old carpet will be the hardest part of the job. All you really need to install them is a yardstick and a sharp knife to cut them.

However, since you want to create a good impression to your paying public and critics, you would be best advised to engage a professional carpet layer. Their expertise will make a difference in the appearance and also the time required to complete the job.

Why Not Consider Installing Carpet Tiles In Your Restaurant?

Red and grey carpet tile

If you need new flooring, there are plenty of reasons to consider carpet tiles for a restaurant. They are fairly inexpensive to purchase, easy to install and easy to replace. Since your investment will be smaller than for other flooring choices, you can afford to replace your whole floor in a few years if you change your mind about the decor. In any case, if you think you can’t afford new flooring in your restaurant, check out prices for carpet tiles online or at a local home improvement store.

This is a commercial wholesaler of carpet tiles. Carlisle Carpets Ltd.